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No. 699.748. Patented ma l3, I902.

H. F. ENGLEKING.

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(Application filed Dec. 30, 1901.)

(No Model.)

llsiiTn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY F. ENGLEKING, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,748, dated May 13, 1902.

Application filed December 30, 1901. Serial No. 8 7,772. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. ENGLEKING, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 775 Loomis street, in the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Files; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My improvement relates to that class of devices which are used for the temporary pres ervation of newspapers, periodical journals, and similar publications.

The object of my invention is to construct a file of any required size in such a simple and inexpensive way and of such simple adjustment as to extend its use beyond the usual public places in which such files are used and into the office and the home.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the-several parts hereinafter described, and ill ustrated by the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a view of the file with the several parts assembled and a paper held therein. Fig. 2 shows the several parts constituting the file and their relations to each other. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal sectional view through the lines 3 in Fig. 4, showing the construction and connection of the several parts assembled without the paper. Fig. 4 is a transverse View through the line A at in Fig. 3, showing the staff and bar in cross-section and end View of the channel in the staff.

In the drawings, A is a staff, in which the paper is held and on which it is folded when desired.

B is a channel cut in the staff A, in which the paper is inserted and held.

C is a bar or file which extends through the length of the channel I3 and by which the paper is held in the staff.

D is a cap which fits over one end of the staff in which the bar or file C is retained and by which it is held when being placedin or withdrawn from the staff A.

E is a handle by which the staff is held while in use.

F is an eye by which the file may be suspended when not in use.

The material used in the construction of my improved file is preferably wood, except the bar or file, which is preferably metal.

The staff A, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, is made separate from the handle E and cap D. It is constructed of one solid piece and any desired length and diameter. Through the length of this staff a triangular channel is out, as shown in Figs. 2, S, and 4:. The interior angles at the base of this channel are rounded to facilitate the insertion and movement of the paper to be filed. The exterior angles at the opening of the channel are also rounded, as shown in Fig. 4, to facilitate the insertion and movement of the paper and to prevent the cutting of the paper when in use. At that end a of the staff on which the cap D is placed the channel B is somewhat enlarged and rounded out to permit the easy insertion of the paper to beheld into the chanme]. The depth of the channel B is preferably about one-third of the diameter of the staff. The cap D is constructed of one piece, preferably of wood, and isvrecessed at (l to re ceive the free end a of the staff A, the recess beingslightly smaller than the end of the staff, which is forced into the cap by reasonable pressure. This pressure slightly closing the opening of the channel creates a spring-pressure sufficient to retain the cap in place and to sustain the weight of the staff, handle, and paper when the file is hung up. The cap is pierced with a small hole d through its cen-- ter to receive and hold the bar or file C, as shown in Fig. 3. The bar or file C is made of any suitable material, preferably of metal, and of sufficient size to correspond with the diameter and length of the staff. The eye F is made of any required diameter to hang up the file when not in use and as a projection to be engaged by the cap D. The oifset c in the bar or file C (shown in Fig. 3) is provided for the double purpose of establishing, together with the eye F, a permanent movable connection of the cap D and bar or file C, by which the cap may be connected with or disconnected from the staff and the bar or file inserted in and withdrawn from the staff, channel, and paper. The olfset in the bar or file is also designed to permit the bar or file to pass through the center of the cap, and thereby permit the cap to be revolved freely on the bar or file and on the staff, and thereby facilitate the connection and disconnection of cap and stafi.

The handle E is made of one piece, preferably of wood, and recessed at eto receive the staff, to which it is permanently attached by adhesive or mechanical means.

The manner of using, the file when construeted as herein described'is as follows:

'The handle E is held in one hand and the cap D in the other hand; A slight twisting movement removes the cap from the staff, and thereby facilitates 'the withdrawing of'the bar or file therefrom. The paper to be filed is opened in the center, the baror'fileplaced therein,-and'thepaper'refolded over the file. With the thumb and fingers grasping the paper and bar or file at the point e thepaper and file G are inserted in the channel in the staff at a and drawn through the channel till the cap, engages the staff, when by a twisting movement the cap and staff are firmly united, the paper is mounted, and the file made complete, as shown in Fig. 1.

What 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a file for the temporary preservation of newspapers and like publications the con1- bination comprising a staff formed of one piece of material, preferably of wood, having a longitudinal channel triangular in form,

the interior and exterior angles of said channel being rounded, a handle affixed to one end of said staff, a cap adapted to be attached to and to be removable from the other end of the staff, the said. cap having a-central aperture in line with the longitudinal center of the staff, and a bar or file adapted to extend longitudinally through the channel in the staff and through the aperture in the cap, the said bar or file having a set-off and an eye,

' the said eye and set-off being arranged to encentral bearing on which said cap is free to g be revolved, substantially as described.

HENRY F. ENGLEKING.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH STAAB, JULIUS RUBINsTEIN. 

